So let’s get started with a fresh install of 8.04.2 with all the updates.

1. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
2. sudo apt-get install build-essential
3. sudo addgroup –system qtss
   sudo adduser –system –no-create-home –ingroup qtss qtss
4. cd /usr/local/src/
5. Download the latest version at http://github.com/lstoll/dss/tree/master
6. tar -xvf lstoll-dss-984a1365251f36ebf3f60f0d0175fa895a30b9a9.tar
7. cd lstoll-dss-984a1365251f36ebf3f60f0d0175fa895a30b9a9/
8. ./Buildit install
9. cd DarwinStreamingSrvr6.0.3-Linux
10. ./Install
11. If you see Setup Complete! message, you are good to go. Logon to http://servername:1220/ using your browser. Username and password is the ones you entered at step 10.

Ok, now you have Darwin Streaming Server installed on your Ubuntu Hardy box.

Here’s a sample init file for DSS:
[sourcecode language="plain"]
#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: 35 92 12
# description: Quicktime Streaming Media Server
#
# Slight tweak of file create by Larry Underhill 05/20/02
#
# init script to start up the quicktime (Darwin) streaming server
# tested on Redhat 7.2, Fedora Core 4 and CentOS-4.3

# source function library
#. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

case "$1" in
start)
if test -r /var/lock/dssd
then
echo "Lockfile /var/lock/dssd exists. Server not started."
failure
else
echo "Starting Darwin Streaming Server: "
/usr/local/sbin/DarwinStreamingServer && touch /var/lock/dssd
echo "Starting DSS Admin Console: "
/usr/local/sbin/streamingadminserver.pl
echo "DSS and DSS Admin Console started…"
fi
;;

stop)
echo "Stopping Darwin Streaming Server: "
[ -f /var/lock/dssd ] || exit 0
echo "stopping…"
killall DarwinStreamingServer && killall streamingadminserver.pl
#ps ax | awk ‘{print $1" " $5}’ | awk ‘/DarwinStreamingServer/ {print $1}’ | xargs -r kill -9 && success || failure
#echo "Stopping DSS Admin Console: "
#ps ax | awk ‘/streamingadminserver.pl/ {print $1}’ | xargs -r kill -9  && success || failure
rm -f /var/lock/dssd
echo
;;

restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
;;

*)
echo "Usage: $0 [start|stop|restart]"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
[/sourcecode]
Save this file in /etc/init.d/dss

Make it executable chmod +x /etc/init.d/dss and make it auto start when booting:

update-rc.d dss defaults
Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/dss …
/etc/rc0.d/K20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc1.d/K20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc6.d/K20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc2.d/S20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc3.d/S20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc4.d/S20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc5.d/S20dss -> ../init.d/dss

Now that we have already installed DSS on Ubuntu Hardy box, next thing is how to broadcast mp3 and video through it. Well, that’s a next post coming up. Enjoy!

DSS Admin Console

1. First we need to generate some keys:
   ssh-keygen -t dsa
2. Then we copy them over to the remote server:
   scp .ssh/id_dsa.pub user@someserver:/somepath
3. Then we copy the key to the authorized_keys file:
   cat id_dsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys
4. Then as a security measure we chmod it:
   chmod 644 .ssh/authorized_keys
5. Logout and try login in again. Hurra!

Important note:

Please set a password for your keychain. It’s a very insecure if you set no password for it. Somebody can eventually get your public key and access your servers without passwords. If you set password it will ask only at first time and keep in the session.

Password-less ssh logins are done via keychain. Here’s a small excerpt from the Gentoo Wiki:

Many of us use the excellent OpenSSH as a secure, encrypted replacement for the venerable telnet and rsh commands. One of OpenSSH’s (and the commercial SSH2’s) intriguing features is its ability to authenticate users using the RSA and DSA authentication protocols, which are based upon a pair of complementary numerical “keys”. And one of the main appeals of RSA and DSA authentication is the promise of being able to establish connections to remote systems without supplying a password. The keychain script makes handling RSA and DSA keys both convenient and secure. It acts as a front-end to ssh-agent, allowing you to easily have one long-running ssh-agent process per system, rather than per login session. This dramatically reduces the number of times you need to enter your passphrase from once per new login session to once every time your local machine is rebooted.

So let’s get started. The first thing to do is sign up at Amazon EC2. I’ll be using Ubuntu on this.

You need Java JRE, do:

apt-get install sun-java5-jre

vim .bashrc

# Amazon Ec2
export EC2_HOME=~/.ec2
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export JAVA_HOME=/usr
type bash to reload your bash_rc

cd ~/.ec2

Amazon has this services where you can use virtual servers, either your custom or prebuilt publicly shared server images. The key point here is that Amazon has a lot of servers that can be used at any time.

So let’s get started. The first thing to do is sign up at Amazon EC2. I’ll be using Ubuntu on this.

You need Java JRE, do:

apt-get install sun-java5-jre

vim .bashrc

# Amazon Ec2
export EC2_HOME=~/.ec2
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export JAVA_HOME=/usr
type bash to reload your bash_rc

cd ~/.ec2

Amazon has this services where you can use virtual servers, either your custom or prebuilt publicly shared server images. The key point here is that Amazon has a lot of servers that can be used at any time.

So let’s get started. The first thing to do is sign up at Amazon EC2. I’ll be using Ubuntu on this.

You need Java JRE, do:

apt-get install sun-java5-jre

vim .bashrc

# Amazon Ec2
export EC2_HOME=~/.ec2
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export JAVA_HOME=/usr
type bash to reload your bash_rc

cd ~/.ec2

ec2-add-keypair arstan-keypair

Save those lines including  —–BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY—– and also  —–END RSA PRIVATE KEY—– lines.

sudo chmod 600 id_rsa-arstan-keypair

ec2-describe-images -o amazon This will show the server images that Amazon has for you. You can see ec2-describe-images -a to see all the server images you have access to.

ec2-run-instances ami-0459bc6d -k arstan-keypair

ec2-describe-instances will show you instances you are running.

You can just enable ACPI and PAE/NX in the VirtualBox image General Settings and you are all set to install Ubuntu.

It’s been long time since I posted in my blog. It’s past midnight Wednesday (I love Selangor state for its public holidays!) and no office tomorrow.

I watched closely VirtualBox from its Sun acquisition and I am very pleased with the project progress overall. On my day to day RnD stuff I have already shifted myself from VMWare Sever to VirtualBox.

In VirtualBox after installing Ubuntu 8.04.1 Server (Hardy) and rebooting, you will get some errors that your CPU is not supported.

It’s because you have no linux-virtual package installed. So here’s the steps how to pass by this problem.

1. Reboot the instance, boot into Rescue a broken system
2. If you chose auto-partitioning, select sda1 as your root directory and enter into it.
3. Execute dhclient eth0, apt-get update && apt-get install linux-virtual
4. Type exit and reboot the system from the menu.

Now you will be able to boot into your newly installed Ubuntu.

Also in latest versions of Ubuntu my WLAN is taken as wlan0. I’m so much used to eth1 as my WLAN. Anyways, on my laptop I won’t have any additional LAN devices except my built in.

So, let’s change those things, shall we?

sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

# PCI device 0×14e4:0×1600 (tg3)
SUBSYSTEM==”net”, ACTION==”add”, DRIVERS==”?*”, ATTR{address}==”00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx”, ATTR{type}==”1″, KERNEL==”eth*”, NAME=”eth1″

# PCI device 0×8086:0×4222 (iwl3945)
SUBSYSTEM==”net”, ACTION==”add”, DRIVERS==”?*”, ATTR{address}==”00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx”, ATTR{type}==”1″, KERNEL==”wlan*”, NAME=”wlan0″

Change above to:

# PCI device 0×14e4:0×1600 (tg3)
SUBSYSTEM==”net”, ACTION==”add”, DRIVERS==”?*”, ATTR{address}==”00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx”, ATTR{type}==”1″, KERNEL==”eth*”, NAME=”eth0″

# PCI device 0×8086:0×4222 (iwl3945)
SUBSYSTEM==”net”, ACTION==”add”, DRIVERS==”?*”, ATTR{address}==”00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx”, ATTR{type}==”1″, KERNEL==”wlan*”, NAME=”eth1″

So, all you have to do is to edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file and change the NAME option to your choice of your ethernet/wifi device name.

See bugs from Ubuntu Launchpad here and here.

This is my daily work laptop. Running xubuntu 8.0.4.1

What’s yours?

1. wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz
2. apt-get install build-essential linux-kernel-devel linux-headers-generic xinetd
3. tar -xzvf VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz
4. cd vmware-server-distrib && ./vmware-install.pl
5. ln -sf /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.3/libgcc_s.so /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1 && ln -sf /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0

That’s it.

Yesterday I found the postal package on my table, it was from them.

I did go through the book roughly, I find it quite useful as a reference in your bookshelf. I will read through the book carefully and try to implement examples and how-tos in this book and write a full featured detailed review.

Until then stay tuned!

sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp
sudo killall nm-applet
sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart
nm-applet –sm-disable &

Then configure your Microsoft VPN Connections in Network Manager. It’s the one on top right corner.

If you are dealing with CentOS 5 x86_64 (Free version of RHEL5), try to install libssh2 for your PHP development you might fail in doing so.

So here’s a quick tip how to install libssh2 on X86_64 systems(I think i386 works just fine)

Edit: /usr/share/pear/pearcmd.php

Set: @ini_set(’memory_limit’, ‘16M’);

And try again!

$ sudo mysqld –skip-grant-tables &

$ mysql -u root mysql

$ mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD(’MyNewPasswordHere’) WHERE User=’root’;

$ mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

$ mysql> \q

$ sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

Now you can login using your new root password.

Anyways, there was a logo competition going on at Arch Linux community and they announced the winner. The winner is Thayer Williams. Here’s the logo scetch from him:

You can check other designs at http://dev.archlinux.org/~travis/logo-contest/

• GPLv3
• Asus Eee PC
• OpenMoko
• Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 7.10 = lots of fork distros
• GNOME 2.20
• Pidgin 2.0
• KDE 4.0(postponed to Jan 2008)
• Xfce 4.4
• Google Desktop
• Fedora 7, Fedora 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Mplayer 1.0 RC2
• Adobe Flash Player 9
• OpenOffice.org 2.3
• Linux is preinstalled in Dell, Lenovo and HP PCs
• Wallmart and gOs = Everex

Did I miss anything?

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Anyways, I have requested some 7.10 i386 and 7.10 64bit versions from the Shipit, and now I have them in my hands! For which I thank Canonical and the Ubuntu team!

Great job folks!

P.S.

For those who are interested you can download Ubuntu here and you can request free CDs here.

./scalix-installer –override-release=suse101

If you opt for having your server relay through your ISP SMTP servers the official HOW TO is not that helpful. So I thought I will blog about it for my future reference and who knows may be somebody will benefit from it too!

vim /etc/mail/access

add the following line:

AuthInfo:your.smtpserver.net “U:you@your.smtpserver.net” “P:your_password” “M:DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN”

Then edit this file:

vim /etc/mail/linux.mc

add following line:

define(`SMART_HOST’,`your.smtpserver.net’)dnl

then run

m4 /etc/mail/linux.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf

and restart your sendmail

/etc/init.d/sendmail restart

That’s it! Enjoy relaying!

Ok, so Yahoo! bought Zimbra E-Mail Collaboration Suite for approximately $350 million! You can find more information here, here and here.

I guess, the giants like Yahoo! and Google just buying  any good software that’s in the market. The question is, which company will acquire which company? Yahoo! or Google?

Anyways, congrats to  Satish Dharmaraj, CEO of Zimbra, he is now officially multi-millionaire(if he wasn’t before)!

I couldn’t find much information regarding this but this is a great news. Not only Dell is shipping Linux preloaded but HP also has stepped in. Not long ago Lenovo also confirmed shipment of Thinkpads loaded with Suse Linux Enterprise Desktops.

My two cents: I am really happy to say vendors adopting choices and going for Linux. I think Linux has proven itself on the server side and now time for the desktops!

Anyways, here I quote his email:

Hello everybody out there using minix -
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things).
I’ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months, and
I’d like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
are welcome, but I won’t promise I’ll implement them
Linus (torva…@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
PS. Yes – it’s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have .

I liked wamukota’s comment. I’m quoting it here:

I am not at all interested in the political stuff at a higher level, nor the legal status of the project. But I acknowledge the point that such issues must be solved, and quickly, if the momentum of the project is to be maintained. But don’t play it out in the open.

So, do whatever you feel best for you Daniel but do not forget that Gentoo has been the starting point of many a GNU/Linux user and that newbies will still be trying to learn GNU/Linux through Gentoo because there is no decent alternative for us.

I think Daniel still wants to get hands on the project but can’t really do that now. May be if he is elected by users and sponsored to do his work in the project he might stay there for us?

Intel® Celeron 1.5 GHz CPU
14″ Widescreen X-bright LCD
256 MB Ram memory
40 GB Hard Drive
802.11g Wireless LAN
Optimized Linux operating system
Pre-installed office and multimedia applications

I think it’s difficult to find even second hand laptops for this cheap here in Lowyat, KL. They ship internationally, so I’m gonna see if I can get one of those. Will be an extra machine to be entertained with!

Here’s the link Medison Celebrity Laptop